Yes, it can! This is one facet of adaptive optics, which astronomical observatories can use to compensate for distortions in astronomical images caused by our atmosphere. Let’s set the stage ...

Adaptive optics relies on wave-front sensors to measure aberrations in light coming into a telescope, camera, or similar system, and then uses deformable mirrors to correct those aberrations.

Hidden in Chile’s Atacama Desert, the $1.5B Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) nears completion. With a massive 130-ft mirror, ...

It has software libraries in C++, Java, Matlab and Labview. The mirrors are also contained within an embedded adaptive optics system that comes with 32-channel drive electronics and a software ...

Iris AO, Inc. manufactures high-performance deformable mirrors (DM) and adaptive optics (AO) systems. All DM systems Iris AO ships are factory calibrated for precise linear open-loop positioning and ...

Astronomers discovered supersonic winds on a giant gas planet located over 500 light-years from Earth. In a study released ...

These techniques have landed in the field of adaptive optics, and are being used to correct distortions caused by atmospheric turbulence in astronomical images obtained by ground-based telescopes.

Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific Vol. 118, No. 845, July 2006 The Strehl Efficiency of Adaptive Optics... The Strehl Efficiency of Adaptive Optics Systems This is the metadata ...

By combining these technologies AOS developed both conventional wavefront-sensor adaptive optics systems and metric AO systems. The most recent work at AOS has been in demonstrating laser beam shaping ...